[Sample] Pune Metro Line 1 — Station Area Development Plan

Building the City Around the Metro, Not the Reverse

Pune's Metro Line 1 (Pimpri-Chinchwad to Swargate) opens its underground central section in 2024, passing through the city's densest commercial and institutional precincts. The Station Area Development Plan (SADP) is a first-of-its-kind regulatory instrument for Pune, translating the metro catchment into implementable urban design rules.

For each of the five priority stations — Civil Court, Budhwar Peth, Shivajinagar, Deccan, and Garware — the plan defines a 500 m pedestrian shed, maps the current block structure and access barriers, and proposes a minimum public realm standard: 3 m footpaths on all streets within 200 m, tactile paving to all station entrances, and public bicycle-sharing docking in the first 100 m.

“A metro station in the basement is worthless if the street above it is impassable. The SADP is the city's commitment to the last mile.”

— Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation

The development plan is being adopted as a Special Planning Authority order by PMC, enabling the floor-space incentives to be enforced at the building-permission stage from January 2025.